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‘Green economy’: Empty rhetoric or pathway to future?
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 26, Issue 2, Aug 2012, p. 5 - 5
- French
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- 12 Aug 2012
Abstract
With current trends leading the earth to disaster, world leaders and some 40,000 people converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June in the hope of charting a path towards a better, more sustainable future for everyone that many are calling the “green economy.” Underlining the urgency, Sha Zukang, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, said more than a year before the summit began: “If we continue on our current path, we will bequeath material and environmental poverty, not prosperity, to our children and grandchildren.”
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